Walnut Street School

Walnut Street School operates as a very small elementary school in Woodbury, New Jersey, one of the schools within Woodbury City Public School District. Current enrollment sits at 112 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 405 students each, so Walnut Street School sits 72% leaner than that benchmark.

Within Woodbury City Public School District, which oversees 4 schools and 1,709 students, Walnut Street School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Walnut Street School records that the most-represented group is Black (30%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 29% Hispanic, 24% White, 14% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 11% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.4:1, putting Walnut Street School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 71% of students at Walnut Street School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Gloucester County's rate of about 32%.

With demographic context factored in, Walnut Street School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 27.1%; this one delivers 36.0%.

Around the school, Gloucester County reports that the typical household earns roughly $105,115 per year, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Gloucester County's 86 public schools (combined enrollment of about 46,080 students), Walnut Street School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Woodbury Jr-Sr High School, roughly 0.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Walnut Street School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Walnut Street School at 2nd of 7; the average score across the group is 28.7%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Over the past 7-year window. Walnut Street School's enrollment has edged down 8% since 2018, when it stood at 122 (now 112). Hispanic enrollment moved from 20% to 29% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 12.2:1 in 2018 to 9.6:1 today.

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